St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-13
THEIR PREVIOUS FIGHTS.
DOings of the Bantams Before
Their Meeting Tonight.

Tommy Warren was born ut Los
Angeles, Cal, June Z, 1865. His
father is wealthy farmer now living
near Los Angeles, and Tommy was
kept at farm work until the age of four
teen, when he gratified his longing to
see the world by skipping on British
vessel without consulting his stern
parent on the subject. He found four
other kids a little older than himself
apprenticed on the vessel. They were
English and took great pleasure III nag
cling" the Yank. as they called him.
Tommy endured it as long as it
did not go beyond mere
challenged one of the boys to combat,
ring was formed and he thumned the
BritiSher beautifully for the honor Of
Uncle Sam. The voyage extended to
Great Britain, Australia and some ports
of continental Europe, and during its
duration of two years Tommy found OPP
portunity to knock out the other three
of his companions. This gave him
taste for the pugilistic art. and when he
got around to San Francisco he went
into regular training. His first import
ant fight was at New York when he was
eighteen years old. He met Johnny
Heating, fought him seventeen rounds
with bare knuckles. and won. War
ren'S most important fight, and the one
Oh which his reputation is founded. Oc-
CURED at Louisville. KY, on the 22d of
March, 1856, when he fought Tommy
Barnes for the championship of the
United States and $1,000 a side. The
fight lasted three hours and twenty
minutes, and in the forty-fifth round
Warren knocked his antagonist sense
less, picked him up and carried him out
of the ring. He Immediately accepted
an offer to appear at exhibitions in Gin
cinnati, Philadelphia, Albany and other
cities. He says to give a list of all his
contests would hardly be interesting.
Previous to his fight tonight, Warren
has met fOrty-tiye men in the ring, and
never been defeated.
THE SPIDERS RECORD.
Isaac O'Neil Weir. 1.-The Belfast Spi-
der" came to America in 1885. He is
five feet five and One-eighth inches i'll
height. He appears almost dudish.
carries buck-hOrn cane and wears kid
gloves, and is the last man to be singled
out of a crowd as pugiliSt. He regards
himself as a man of destiny, and in
speaking of his career in the ring gen.
orally tells this story: Twelve months
to day from the time | sailed from
Liverpool l won the feather-weight belt
at Boston. and exactly twelve months
from the day of my arrival i'll Boston l
beSted Randi Asked the other day
how many fights he had won. he said:
''All ever went into. l consider that
| have won twenty-one battles, and
they were all hard 'uns, too. l didn't
count 'knOck-outs' with no-account peO-
pie. Before left England i'll 1885 l
won in a competition III which l de-
feated George Pallen, George Stewart
and Bill Parton. Who have l met in
this country? Well, a lot of hard-fsted
boys. / knocked out Jimmy Furry and
John Aaron in five rounds each; then
Jimmy Farrell with skin gloves in
seven rounds at New York; next Ar
mold Rand for the international cham
pionship belt at Boston; next defeated
Jack Williams in thirty-siX rounds;
then George Badger, at Fall River, in
one round-he was an easy one; Willie
Clark lasted twenty-six rounds, but l
finally defeated him. Then came my